Cyrus The Great – Dr. Roy | Museum of the Future: Lessons from the Past

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Cyrus the Great is Dr. Roy’s tenth and final lecture for the Museum of the Future’s Lessons from the Past (2025), a collaboration exploring pivotal moments and ideas that have shaped human history.

In this concluding session, Dr. Roy examines the life and legacy of a ruler whose approach to power redefined conquest. Through the story of Cyrus, the lecture explores early concepts of human rights, religious freedom, and cultural pluralism, and why these ideas remain urgently relevant today.